Progress on OllyDGB v. 2.0 - Command Search

[JMI]

Those of you awaiting developement and release of OllyDBG v. 2.0 might enjoy reading this latest status update statement from the author about the new Command search, posted April 17, 2007.

See the news here:

http://ollydbg.de/version2.html

Regards,

[rendari]

I think I'm in love.

[JMI]

Well don't get it all over your hand!

Regards,

[lcx2005]

Nice News, if olly 2.0 support sym/map etc. like softice. I hope everyone will enjoy it.

anyway, I happy to see this news

[0xf001]

wooow!

really nice, and useful. also the instruction help looks very handy.

cheers, 0xf001

[blabberer]

nice he changed the command search model and hope he made that search api exportable or atleast callable via a typedeffed instance instead of a DlgProc

[Polaris]

Yeah, that is great news. I would like some estimate on when it will be ready, though...

[daivi]

wooow!

I think I'm in love.

[owl]

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[Originally Posted by daivi;65116]wooow! I think I'm in love.

it must be contagious

[Epsylon3]

http://www.ollydbg.de/version2.html updated birthday

[ssb]

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[Originally Posted by Epsylon3;65779]http://www.ollydbg.de/version2.html updated birthday

Great news!
However I wonder why Olly rewrites the whole debugging engine from scratch

[lcx2005]

Nice, I hope we can use this version in this year and not later.
Olly and for the Creator.

[squidge]

I do wonder at times why no one has thought about creating an Ollydbg "competitor".

[disavowed]

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[Originally Posted by squidge;66014]I do wonder at times why no one has thought about creating an Ollydbg "competitor".

why reinvent the wheel?

[squidge]

Well, if Ollydbg was open source, we wouldn't need to, and a group of developers could be developing 2.0, rather than a single person. The plug-in interface is nice, but you can't do everything in it.

I'm thinking of the kind off developer support that Linux has, but for a debugger. Maybe I'm expecting too much? Still it would be nice to add my own features beyond that possible via the plugin interface.

Don't get me wrong here, I think Ollydbg is an excellent tool, regardless of the fact it is free. I just think we could have much more by making it more open.

[Silkut]

If someone really needed to make an OllyDbg competitor, he still had the little package released as free beer 6 yrs ago to start his own, like ptrace ollydbg-like under linux. Maybe Olly was victim of his own success, maybe as Disavowed said noone wanted to reinvent the wheel. I saw that Oleh do not talk about open source in his faq, you know "Can I have the source ?" _"No because reason".

my £0.02, cheers.

[ssb]

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[Originally Posted by squidge;66059]Well, if Ollydbg was open source, we wouldn't need to, and a group of developers could be developing 2.0, rather than a single person. The plug-in interface is nice, but you can't do everything in it

If Ollydbg was open source, I'm afraid it would be a buggy unstable crap like many opensource projects.
I always prefered projects built by a close group of a few (or a single) developers instead by a whole community of fanboys...
However I do agree with a more open architecture suggestion.

Just my humble opinion though

[Silkut]

Uh Oh, who said troll, don't feed it pls..

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If Ollydbg was open source, I'm afraid it would be a buggy unstable crap like many opensource projects.

[squidge]

You calling me a troll? :P

[blabberer]

check out part five "Magic Analysis Of Mingw"

does it sound like harry potter and hell of fire ?

[reverser]

Ohh neat, even IDA doesn't yet support GCC's non-push arguments.

[disavowed]

__fastcall?

[blabberer]

dont know but i have seen forth compiled executables doing that kind of
mov esi,callparameters
mov edi,esp+4
repmovsd this fills up the stack with parameters
and then calling

never compiled mingw

[reverser]

__fastcall is different, it just uses registers for parameters. GCC still uses the stack, but doesn't push them.

[disavowed]

I miss the days of non-optimizing compilers... reversing was so much easier then